Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 74

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO HAPPY NEW YEAR BY ZONA GALE Romance, Sentiment, Suspense K oof B stood Dean. Jooking [ (o you” she said. “to tell vou to take | with God,” she sald. “I feel worse|they feel—I tell you I know from the \C the other two angeis, It ap-| no stock In what she's gonig to say »ut my’ being cross to you than I|inside how they feel." peaved. but at her, at “little Minnie,” | to vou whout vour ankle, “Just as 1 knew it that night at Whose name from childhood had dis-| Litte Minnie, in her wedding gown | “Just like your selfishness,” Michael | their house?" nzuished her from “hig Minnie hei | and veil. rose from her dressing table. | growled, and then they laughed a lit-| “Darling! If.we know, how can we wiber Mrs. Luther Burns She walked straight to Esther and but not much. forget? These four months— what | this Minnie proceeded, “is| took her hand. Archie, a son of Luther Rurna, | does it mater? We can stay there to- | AL least, he's golng to be “Uve failed,” she said. 1 thought [ cume up to feed the cow and the Rether till Spring—we can take them ter the wedding, though hel | might have evervthing arranged, [horse and the poultry. Noen brought | home. Why, they're dving from' nes m goin, [ e his. Lut—it was too much for me. Father |\ Luther Burns, with a basket. | homesickness. * Anybody can see that! wptly, ux she lovked in the gld| pros W me to do nothing about your Well,” she said, surveying them, “I|1 tell you, th in that r from ex, she fell silent ¢ turm until we xot back home.. But|goce I've gok vou both on my hands | they feel and I can't e itual property qualifica- | mother has gone on with t—and nOW 116\ for 4 while. I'm glad to do it— LR i Deun gayly, und s too late but I should think vou might have ["TMHE mor $ ¢ “Listen at that ingratitude.” said [y o SO s le n W had mo! ise than to get down A% wher Burns something in the two before [ ber mother. “When 1 did it for you!™ | o o & " Burn i e A RGO, A PARRING Y AiTe ther felt w stir of pity for the This wife always held o Sl awir lEhi words, | Woman, U1 it was me, wanting to ‘ ok hands siently, alimoss | #ive & wedding for my litte girl that Michael grim U s bisther Who cir- | died.” she said, 1 might have done 16 imone i Off, Lier eves still_ misty Uhe sawe thing. Nz after Christmas Luthe: ve them down through the snow to the ilttle house, with*a Sceing Michael <hift and redden.|man und a woman to help. And on Iisther hoped to turn her thought ana | the way Luther Burn 8 WAy Luther Burns said asked: “What do vou hear from Min- You know, he fell down on buy L3 -‘l‘e _]"’".""l' s ing that north forty, Eldridge did. So ! y i hex’ll be home for the holidays,” | when Summer comes \ s e congratulate you,” she wald he papers ure inmy room. 2 | mes vou'll have sther, Checause M.“\‘\I l\:“; (\-fulmusl Hm‘l‘xm““:: iy mll‘l said briakly. TN hn\r\"“‘d her mother. “After that Dean's|plenty of woods to paint in " her. The, wmusement | v \fter 50 years of hand work un | Up father and a couple of witnesses | KDL In his head to &0 to Europe for | “Father: cried Minnie Father! if Fior to in farm, your futher, Minnte, has [ —there’s enough of ‘em handy.| [l Ll TR SRy cun lve over therellf 1 ask yon ‘something will you superior to Le shodions e il Boargeea M s [ Poorigls Gyl | cheaper than they can here. All non-| promise not (o tell mothe e T i i o 1 quiet Fxther looked ut her curiously. Tn | %nse. Um golng to spike (hat. | can| ~Yes. I will"" cried Luther Burns W .M;‘~ he done’” asked Minnie, | the laxt half howr before her daughter | '€l \:"'l': | A . with su fervor that they looked st WIEh S eyebrow. oF iR R BIe Rtk | Wos ito Teave Ber Michaey ot leave ‘em alone?” asked | him in astonishment. “Your mother 2k ‘ plelon From suspicious proximity, Mr, | Atchael bluntly. . (18 A regular captain sometimes,” he . i she replied Sther told her, dolng her best to|Burna uppeared. The witnesses, he Leave ‘em’ alone!” cried Minnle's | ended Jamely and said no more moup to i wive the tatortation 5% post 19| vald. were reudy: and if Mr. and Mrs, | mother “shetily If 1 had. they | By the day before New Yenr's t or nitie Mianie, | Kave cthe furmation Mke & Wamoer. |5 R R0 (5NN e would step this] Wouldn't be married yei. Al loast| work wes danc Thers wice b Minnie lstened and sald . nothing, | Way—the four went into the xi [l with the decent wedding 1 was | all the stoves and on the span hearth D ey e Hior e i i, | bound they whould have She | holly and ground pine on the walls Kuew L e heied ar iyl e Nlopped. remembering just how she | the little firsi-floor hedroom was aired und had Ak the Mbor HndC AERey ol MINNIE opened the door which led hud managed that “decent wedding.” |and warmed, and lamplight was 5 th & . 10 the passuge '“, be sure, her husband's huyer had|evervwhere. Also there was a pantry T el Do ad anea ‘{5...,.:-.“1 his mind about taking that [<tecked with things which little Min that she preferred to be penni | From his room the hride orth 46, bul that wasn't her fault, [ nie had prepared ess and avoid mathematics! and. | peared as If he had been waiting |und Luther had paid the bills some I never knew vou fo act s sensi voild they both come 1o her wedding? | xummons, . bon o | Mle.” «ald her mother, admiringly | < my wedding.” she observed Darling.” he said. “how dear of e _“You're all coming here for dinner | hough Dean thinks it's his. Why | vou—und how lovely you hmk——v\ha\sil:\ ERY morning for a week AHNM‘ N Year's eve.” Minnie reminded not? - I'm gettng everything and |the trouble?” i Burns fed the Chapins' stock Oh, ves . Déan's Eetbing mothing “Deun— and at noon either Luther Burns or | e s ol coming o Mas You can see for vourself,” Dean| My heavens, you don't want €o|hix wife came with a bashket ks how upset she ix i her math- | back out?” Don’t trouble like this,” Ksther Her kisa satisfied him, but her face [ Legged her. And big Minnle re . - two went away In u littde [ sl hew its gricf. She told him sponded | 15 HBspIne ove ooming, (top down the Summer dusk.| “But your father promized (o Wait | I enioy doing my duts . CHINS and Michuel stood lookink ut |untl we get back wer | “But den't come every Suddenly Esther laid her head | “I1Us mother—she's the one. Can't | zeq Michael's shoulder and began to | We do something? [, 7T don't bear her few recreations, and fTealing to hix wife was one ¥ 1 them would help mixht that the minute you uwned asse And I can leave some cold things on a tray for the | Chapins. tence. s wished, Le rm sold at sheriff’s sat there, so gentle <o deferential. x| day!” Esther llkl‘, Chapins were moving heavily | £ uhout their room | ; my) croas: tlils way.] | Ldonit want to E0 4 Michael e looked ut her sadly “This, how am » i Nor | 3 el don't w iwhile, down In the middle pas- | he said. “is the first disappointmn L Salse i e i ey et el 2nd b uRedy Lothe moon rising, the two | 10 come 10 You from marrying u A week of this. and there came the we'd ought to he tle Minnie all ready fu; who should have been lutent | 1 L second row. Foi hours the roads wer 2 said Michael, “but I'm Esthet nothing Dut themuolves, wers | “This she suid grimiy, *1s one of | FSSHE fOW. For louts the rouda were Reen all read i thinking of themselves not at all the things that happens when your ie arrived to feed the xtock: th t Sir'" cried Esther 1 n er fathe Mummy's done that.” satd Minnfe | family wants property. 1wt Just |Gl U i hived i whe | #shamied of hating 1o eai a meal i e a scared hen. doink She's 50 shrewd Ui ushamed | the wedding, 1Ca the peisan o liad broken arvad down the valley. | 1Y 0Wn house ax o guest Michuel s P , T er's signed and delivered. o and delivered v dectsion: | )1 . fon bread. shong it o sald for that plan?” her lover urged. | The pupers were signed and I am golng to bundle ¢ I dredged the four fo said n like Tu dave all responsibility taken | Minnle went to Exthor b i Y- [ thix) ditterncon .~ shie: sild. “and. ale i Coso g M sig - 4 awa i . S You up to our house She whispered can’t think o I Who wants all responsibility tuken | '“}»j\“l'l\m-‘””f“:l»‘h, .‘,"_»}‘”]“"‘rp fke « | Michael looked up at her. and some. | #0¥thing 1o comfort us. IUI never & “MY HEAVEN. YOU DONT WANT cried Minnie, “You're talkng | e oment. ~If only.” she | tBINK of the Gaelic and Scottiah blood | ¢ MY didven ] TO BACK OUT?" helr farm, thelr Bome for B | I O e was it wae. a little | O hin mother surged into the atolid | phcan think of something.” said o tenanteand be taben bane | bit, Dun't you see, we haven't got|face. He spoke as with the terrible|Michael “l'm going to get out in the Mot be taken care | VIt Lunt xoi see. we b eon Ko | wnthurics of premonition, bt i mas | %00thed und Chon ‘am iy 8 haich I the; die d e tha 3 by . - to Michael | Woula S0 would fath He huw | If 1t was the way vou =ay, and Ave been rather his intuition of "’"u( ST i e i » would you. So would father e hax s hen 8 woman's thoug Michael nodd merely let mother talk him inte this, bad helped o littde—oh, dont ¥ S ekt Deun.” she sald solemnly, “if our chil- see - | dren ever catch us betng ‘smart’ in a | “IUS wbout time for You to g0 down Burns concluded neatly. | Lusiness deal and dolng somebody else now, Minniel” cried Mrs seemed tmpossible | Mavhe and we'll never get hack. Yes, | Min o alled them from the g e aml we'll never get back.” he almost | PAS5age hey were ready, and when | . 1 et T e A Shanica 'e almost | he two neat, slow figures had gone mother. Dean and 4 . ! ni Mr me br Not till these rouds break up,” safg |90 10 the sieigh Minnie ran back |MT: Chapin to stay ! s P e of something, I hope they won't | briskly Mis. Burns grimiy #nd put their few belongings into their | “Tonight, and as as : . y dou't Knew light « for it <uddenly Minuie saw her mother,| T R EUINE L ed fxures | PARS 8nd slipped them in the front | here.” Minnie went on 3 hat's e eivehman m in tha A No do 1. said Dean. “Hut." he d. hu |\~~.-ll um.r\l\.. ..m:.- .’,ml | sat. with big Minnte on the e Krm; of the car see. we need vou here to help ding so n.»;:’.i 2up in_the m't t “they ver cateh y e, | tous for her childr iven the hard | % 4 ge o “ra itop saw this ‘ . id 5 i » And | Dean looke b T i A Il fIageere there DOtAu s liotkel AT the! Top (of the dust i 20 ows of the | promptly dean don't w . o cor B vautage. Just out of kood manners.” |she had trled lu make llfe easy fOF| Michiel twinted in his seat and lookeq | K2PIed houne. And Michael said with | thing to bother him if he's Folng . il lete 1US 16t only good munners.” she (hem. Minnie ran to her e e et oked [a groan. “It's it and it ain't it So i sition suld. “So often. In the few business Mother!” she cried. “Don't vou| 4 rom whose | (hut Mrs. Burna cried, “What on earth 4 11d weil have| She eri el e hings I've had., while I've 1| think that I don’t know— chimney no smoke rose. His chant| g veu mor e iod. T h | Minnie looked ther. And|been e ungrs t her words a [Jusj now ailie e he sense of being (he other persc Well, go on down then, why don't | '€iible. like the keeping of the Gael:| ~Tpey went into the kiteh a Spoke out, rer it—oh, I think we were e noRl o e e s g e o Fdenly | you?™ ui 1 not understandin, | abes. and we'll never get back! there was the odoe of Sotiiichen and | uyimnaris morel’” he sald, clearly, “El P + minute f1. the room like w cloud. Like @ | IUS # strange feeling quite suddenly | vou?" siie xald, not @ x M Tiher Biitos st | a8 the odor of potatoes baking | 4 .00 as hacked put of (Aling that BRNT e kel tnats T It b ool he Gilenoa:, At the| Uiseein to¥reslitnat éris Giker inareor * % %= sinister than her words. As if she| T.\hC oven h forty. Se, Michael, it vou want | N[R: AND MRS. T 5 ce1tian they looked end of a long dav. a gray cloud amd | @04 [ are not two different beings. |7THE Autumn lingered 1ong and | night have heen thinking: “Well ,"I:"‘i “Michael —Mighael!" said ‘Bather, | Dot JOT0 S0, Xoanee, It i A R | Critnind : e e e each with a separuta point of view. slipped graciously into u colored | what If you shonldns “nd|and caught back her cry dther: vear I Fiiiae humming ) And the two % & M othar A I'll have to talk thix | VU0 Just one. Does that sound crazy, | jndian Summer and into a mild No- | figures buwed beside her £5d ”“'"‘_\ What's the matter sked Mrs, = pleasar thing o Michael said at last. She [ Dean vember of siver aud skate: o (hat | were devaatated ba her thonsh ! Burne. in concern. “Did vou hurt | _Michael got to his feet, treml had always been rer” since that | ‘y"’ '”.“\f“;"'d pLE «‘he-‘vl\, AEAINE | the warm Ol \l.‘mhl were unpre- | Nhe it them in u low clean room e i b e : : Do you mean that?’ he aske ne swift, sweet vear: never wer | Bers. “Not 8o lung ax vou feel that | pured for an fey December. By mid- | bare and warm with itx 1'hilay a PEHEE didimot anaver ¢ . © N b Way b0t pares 1 m with itx Philadelphia | off her cout. She was Fog: abort e R That's what 1 come to his painting stood in the warr hurry,” said Burns, and rose There could not have heen ® more perfect host for a mortzage Ts vour wife pretty well?” Esther wanted o say something. so she| yepeated a query with which she had year like that one. but the old title month the world wax xleeping x| heater. They sat down in (he tas 5 the morning of the wedding day for the Chaplus. in the little | rug. |ain't it he muttered ik bt orTieant U teor e 3 b ouse at the top of th ‘Now," said Michael, “we o ] wuttered ou mean you want us here?’ she Luther Burns sent over a hired ';l-;'l';d "l :“‘“”’ top of :"{:‘”“ b said Michael, “we can walt|" The turkey was still on the i “\W*“:;M' 1 ! N L with a note. The papers would | he hard seasor p S | f : | when Minnie began to speak. She had 1's ‘Do you want us here’ now ¢ the lowed about reafy iihat) aflemébn i thaitawyer | S BL CRiS SIENCE (L0 ML ILO S Bon LlaCs walt ooy s saldiEsthier | mieant(oTwalt uRDL Atos o het e eries s L pTant Nig hete: now T2 The whale seemed sud who had drawn them would be at the |(he vwnershiy T the sialrs and ocn (o SUATEINg UD|imother gave ther an earlier ‘oppor-|ilke 10 8ihY for s while, and by, sur|denls exsocdiei house: would Michael and Ksther :_n..;.gn, ; I}n[ i 1' s ::1 [x‘ .~|n< v.«‘ ! down the passage. as if] (unity. board: and—and heln S = s e N mind signing them? Sifners Dag meNnEngn WCh carly I iehad on hoots | “Welll have to eat and run,” Mrs. | well, mayhe uncil atier the crops are o e e e mel}) iinizallixight,” maid: Michae),| Noxember, menciber (o her drmchalnf CTelesram _telephoned] up:” yshé{Bims annoumes. T tecl sl Tnai e jp Taybe until g ZRcens i tonn S The first note of hardness which | pegyily [ by the stove. where she prepared and | shouted. ““Minnie and Dean'll be here |1wo ehilren 1o nat 1o red G bl PRSI 4 room.” o et e ;i ; “Perhaps you won't have to hurry. | himself now 11 matically Baelia | touched along his words edding dav was blue and pur ple. washed with gold. These two | S She's the same old captain” said | crossed for the last time the land |Struggle with the other tasks. It|"TVHIZ North Express was hours late, | Lother Rurne, checked hix tone with | which for half a century they had |Wa% on the morning of the first heavy | and all the way from the station | @ laugh and went away | called their own. The two mortgages | <nowfall that Michael. carrying Jars|the drifis lay deep. But 1o Minnle 2, - | - . . Esther turned Michael had not seemed to matter—these jeft [40d & lamp from the trap-door of the land Dean, warm in the robes while | s | ment mattered like a wound and wrenched his aukl highwayv, the night might have been | Oh, papa!” she said. “Papa’ | The two neat figures went up the Now we're done for,” he sald: and, | that one in Autumn when had | y they That was all. Then she straight-| stens. and Luther Burns met them looking at Esther dully, he kept say- | first driven 7 1 away together. | A I l l aIl ened. brightened and almost made ‘Minnie wants to see you" he ex.|ing this over. “Now we're done for.” | The door of the Burnses: house came For the erlc 11 ell I Str #$im nk (hat this fitted in With | plained. “Little Minnie. She's up.| For some reason. when she saw |open und golden gaslight flared acpose Bvhat came next Ain't this & won-| stairs. She wants vou both to go up.” [ that hix neck was not broken, hix|the hlackness. wierful wav out?”’ she concluded A hope leaped faintly in Esther's|plight made hix® wife unexpectediy sDarling!™ Dean cried. “Look at it RGANIZED common sense, e e e e as) . They ste §1 lusether, looking at the which travels under the dis e e SO . . 1 vellow flood sweeping down the dark | tinguished name of science, | od eilding the white boughs. That | is ironing the wrinkles from | i “\:mm‘ melted and fowed in | the American petroleum in- | TG L dskctiy | dustry’ and s mobilizing standardized le sald: I could paint that practices. which will potentially save o e you - nding out there in our extensive oil well business more ie wuld for. freezing ux 1o death keep- | than $100.000,000 annualiy. ing the door open?” cried Mrx. Burns| Uncle Sam. out Cleveland Park on the threshold |way. 1« the expert engineer. who is| ller very welcomes were warlike, | holding the throttle and guiding the | ven though there were tears in her | peiroleum industry into the smoothest e e hix welcome was alto buai-|sea upon which it has ever traveled nesslike. “Now.” she sald, while her | Representatives of the Bureau of husband was still offering his subdued | giandards are perfecting and testing eeting. “there’'s two folke upstalrs|jeljcate gauges -the future official that wouldn't £o to bed until you |y daticks of ofl well equipment. One come. You'd bext march right up and [ 1500 (HR 2" S T iges will he | jee them, Who? The Chapins. We |y op " nder secure lock right here in brought ‘em up here. bag and bag- | \Wasnington. They will be the aver & tofenditheir dave- ="t lasting units of measurement for a | Slcther: . (hevill hear: youll | vast enterprise, which during the last | 5 Lth "‘[‘I"“"'h know 11" sald big | 1> ponths marketed $1 250,500,000 Minnie, and led the way. 2 ol In that bare room sat Michael and | WOrth of petroleum : : : Another set of the standard gausges sther, loking like figures in a paint-| t : s Lo {ing by Millet. Worn, tired folk, two | Will be maintained in the = the millions like (hem, whom no- | 0il field district, a ‘:‘lli,(dxi«:” »«':\‘ny". Lody wanted. whose scant posses. | {@lifornia petrolenm dis e sions others waited for, while a dole of | fourth outfit will e stationad ot kindness passed for relationship. { Pittsburgh, where most of the oil we Mrs. Burns poured it ail out,-the | machinery, equipment and accessories cold. the allment, the accident, the manufactured. The Government | | at Wi ill be the su snow. and, “we're gol > | gauges at Wushington wi b e o Beghotigtiena o s o preme court of last appeal from which here right along.” she ended compla- | PeWE court B Al TPUCE djusted, cor. cently. | rected and _standardized “But do you want to stay?’ her 2 o lighter denanded ot them: Many additional gauges for use - field cond il be pro It's the best d sther; 1| under field conditions w N see VI;-m( e 2 duced and distributed by commercia IUs the best way.” said Michael, | agencies, but all such will have to ality standard require. and 4 somet s quality under the stan n ;:!I"“l‘“.‘ Iethiog jelee; bt “0|n|eln~t set forth by the Bureau of 5 N S e e subjected to Mrs. Bur had not intended to | Standards and will be subj | ake her proposition that night, bus | regnlar tests and adjustments as he always fell that there was no time ry. R like the present, and she went on: piELugo8 williadd istanduzciss “And I was thinking: Your going to | tion of pipe. casing. unions. collurs, 12urop o udy a 1 S { tool joints, tools and o r eq e 7 L 3 3 = " ocean. Why don’t you two wettle right | At present a multiplicity of shapes. ) 2 ik = 58 . 5 | aty odels. and types which e W ¥ down hplelil{»lh" l:lfll;”l'lh',',‘”‘“ ‘h“‘l"’,7':’;.{.\":,’,ur";.-d.yel;);rl‘.'\ St [into place. Finally, the pipeline was | “stung” right rovally in the pur-|with an annual output of 714.000.000 Winter and comfortable? a ) cha ) oA TAsi DiEa lifted. Immediately, the union with | chase of such equipment. For ex-|barrels of oil. worth in the neighhor Sthect cried Ainnie Spnschajthel ingust ey, SO0 DIE the improper threading broke. The | ample, pipe may be of the same size | hood of $1,250.500,000. Experts esti Bain o herpaumszam e, A e e O i o : [entire line of casing corkscrewed and | and diameter vet one style of casing [ mate that each produciiz well at A saving . why do ve? ' such should occ { col N Mhis aceid COs N h: g reads 10 e wh wresent experiences a loss of one e wm:l at him. petroleum industry grew by spurts ‘;','-‘.‘1‘.’.‘,‘?";- U:ml i?‘( e’\{?:‘: b »sl'!_'lll,\‘:”! “"“\Il)lrd4‘:||:l\‘:'|y1'njh([-:\:l\| _‘v"“‘r!:;w ;:,.’.» present ”‘f rienc w”fl;WM 'r!w e “Those snow effects,” he sald, “such [and jumps and pursued round-about | Particula e s s oo e dase b P dntaieation e s we had tonight—there’s nothing |courses. Rach company engineer, ap- | There has been no uniformity what a3 e e D e S ar ‘hy 2 ced his personal ideas | soever practiced in the manufacture | It is impossible to link these piy r g genera e e . ot satle [parenily, Lo e i il 1 and fittings, | gether in one oil well line with maxi- {equizment. This means that the in down and let me paint here this Win | in the ise of equipment. 1t was of plleellipipe/fxtires auil Nittags: | Kotler (o o dustry suffers a total loss of consid . 'k ; - f coultes? I'd like the Chapin house— " {kind of free-for-all scramble. ch manufac s dis. | safety. : e iatiiossiof I've worked as|and the ink dried, her optimism would {guess I can get to the telephone. You | ‘®}7 L& ERE UhG, SREPIE OgmEe ) KIGC a8 T s, the matter of | tributed what he considered to be | sme cusings are threaded ”‘HI\ Sl l(h‘ ; h\ 0,000,001 s WHAC anakegianey Cxpecties TEpulave: § BUCTWDON (abs [alwinys tilk: scfill { husband uncertainly: “Darling, she | the thread pitch of ofl well casings ap- | most satisfactory. There are hun- | space of only two inches at their con- | throug et thi ols faced that upper room to which they | Michael shouted: “This is a |I(-rll\"*‘_:l‘: ‘h:“h::‘mm‘s‘ D O:Ip“m remnd v unimportant. Yet this | dreds and hundreds of different styles | necting ends. Others are threaded a | Working parts are not interc Etood before that aliyas. wers aliown Ler lope falled agmin, -t eite finpice My habiit {course, I understand—but your fu-|is @ highly important factor in the | and models which differ only slightly. | distance of three and onehalf inches. | able That is why the Ameri IUs the hest we can do.” he sald| At the foot of the bed stood ‘Mrs, | And with a voice which still tem- | [(UC e important than the Cha. | determination of the ultimate success | but which cannot be used interchange. | Obviously, the longer the span of the | troleum Institu ¢ Is co-operatin Luther Burns. She was a captain of | bled from her ggonized fear lest he| i = & or failure of various pipelines | ably. The results as reflected today | connecting joint, other conditions be- | Uncle Sam in the testing of gauges he echoed % the best we canly woman, ax her husband had said. [had killed himself, Isther, creeping| = She had never seen his face with| Here is a point in case. Three thou- | in the producing ofl fields are con-|ing cqual, the stronger the union e e e ot methods which and wa ble to = almost | She was not large, but she was in-|to the telephone, rasped out at him | o girange a look. sund feet of ofl well pipe were hanging | fusion, chaos and financial con-| Furthermore, pipes which classify as | Wwill develop essential unification and bl A { credibly definite: Pointed eves. pointed jon the way: i ' “Minnie,” he said, “it was a queer{In an Oklahoma oil well recently. | sternation. of the smme size may differ appreciably uniformity in equinment and_which i | chin, pointed nose, pointed elbows—it I know it. It's too late to do you| thing and a wonderful thing: but in|More casing was being added, prepara- If you know much or anything|in internal diameter. And the dL g bl o nneces VOICE came into the room, as if | Was astonishing that she could I'ldh!!‘m\\' Ro0d." ithere with them, I got the sense—| tory to lifting and lowering the new | ahout petroleum production, you will | ferences in the tools and tool stocks jsary s I C {¢ were arriving on Its ewn ac-|in such sharp points without becom-| ‘They sat in a wretched silence until | just for a minute—that you told me [ pipe into the future “gusher.’ The |appreciate that the smaller companies | Used in the petroleum industry are | . : t—a volee of Mfe, a girl's voice: | INE A star. But she had no lght. |the doctor came. When he had left| ahout once. 1 felt as if T were hoth | foreman of the job ran out of the (and producers logically utilize large | even more marked and vital than It's Happened Befo “Darlings,’ she eaid, “I want vou|!Dat was it. She was as blank and| his direction for Michael not to step|of them. It was quick. It came and |regulation couplings or unions used | quantities of ‘‘used or second-hand | those wHich occur in the case of S PP re. axngs ey 3 thick ae clay. on his foot, Esther broke down and | went like a flash. but it was just as|in connecting the casing. He sub- uipment.” This procedure is justi- | PiPIng. | Spendthrift—Lend me $2 and 1 to knew Dean. 1 want him to know | equipi ) will you, teo! You're all three angels—| "It was Minnie that sent for you,cried. ‘if T were sitting there in their chairs, | stituted a coupling that had a slightly | fiable in view of their limited capital. | At present there ate 209.000 pro-|be eternally indehted to vou. @86 he's also an artisw ]buv. it was me that wanted to lyuk\ looking at you and me. I know how !different thread taper. It was screwed ! If inexperienced, they frequently get ducing oil wells in the United States Tightwad—Yes, I'm a »r.;“d o “Seems lke we got out of touch